LDS' Greek Log

[Neurotip]

Hi! I'm also learning Greek, also just for fun. There are actually quite a few people here interested in Greek. I don't know if you've seen the study group thread - not very active but worth looking at.

Will be following your log with interest!

[lildreamsnatcher]

Hi! I'm also learning Greek, also just for fun. There are actually quite a few people here interested in Greek. I don't know if you've seen the study group thread - not very active but worth looking at.

Will be following your log with interest!

Hi and thanks! I'll definitely check out that thread

[lichtrausch]

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Another curious thing is that sometimes, to realize that my own language can be also silly, I need to look at it from a distance. So when I saw "ζιγκ ζαγκ" it really weirded me out – what's up with that word?! – only to realize that in Polish we have the same thing. It's such an unusual word, I'll have to check where it came from. I've heard it lots of times before, but I've never wondered about it.

Zigzag? English and French have it too!

[lildreamsnatcher]

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Another curious thing is that sometimes, to realize that my own language can be also silly, I need to look at it from a distance. So when I saw "ζιγκ ζαγκ" it really weirded me out – what's up with that word?! – only to realize that in Polish we have the same thing. It's such an unusual word, I'll have to check where it came from. I've heard it lots of times before, but I've never wondered about it.

Zigzag? English and French have it too!

Really? Wow, I didn't know that! I hardly ever need to use that word, so I'll blame that for my ignorance . But it's always great to find common words across many languages <3

[lildreamsnatcher]

So I'm starting my last year at the University tomorrow! Which might mean I'll have to slow down with learning languages at some point, but who knows what's going to happen. I have no idea how this year is going to look like, which irks me to no end, since how can I plan anything without a fixed schedule? I'll try my best to keep up with Greek, though – I really don't want to lose all that progress I've made so far.

1) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (21/459)
+40
I see that I've already slowed down a bit and I don't like it. Will work on that.

2) Keep making mems (done: 168)
+13
No complaints here.
There are some words though that are hard to mem in my usual way, so I'll have to come up with something new. Like, finding movie titles or songs that have the word I need and remembering it thanks to that?

3) Listen some more (16 hours)
+3 hours
Progress!
It seems that whenever I make progress on one thing, the other one suffers a bit. Kinda ironic.

[StringerBell]

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Another curious thing is that sometimes, to realize that my own language can be also silly, I need to look at it from a distance. So when I saw "ζιγκ ζαγκ" it really weirded me out – what's up with that word?! – only to realize that in Polish we have the same thing. It's such an unusual word, I'll have to check where it came from. I've heard it lots of times before, but I've never wondered about it.

Zigzag? English and French have it too!

Just the other day I heard the infinitive verb "zigzagare" in my Italian audiobook and I did a double take. At first I was wondering if it was an Italianized English word. I didn't realize that word was also in Polish (I found zygzak when I looked it up just now). Usually when I find a word that is common to both Italian and Polish it means that it originates from Greek.

[lildreamsnatcher]

Just the other day I heard the infinitive verb "zigzagare" in my Italian audiobook and I did a double take. At first I was wondering if it was an Italianized English word. I didn't realize that word was also in Polish (I found zygzak when I looked it up just now). Usually when I find a word that is common to both Italian and Polish it means that it originates from Greek.

Huh, so the zigzak club is getting bigger! Funny that such a random word can be so common.

1) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (61/459)
+43

2) Keep making mems (done: 181)
+6

3) Listen some more (19 hours)
+2 hours

So I've found by an accident, believe it or not, a Greek TV series that is easy enough for me to follow and is not cringe-worthy (it seems that Greek TV has something in common with the Polish one; they're both pretty mediocre, if not a bit bad). It's called Το Σόι Σου and it's available on youtube (the first season is unavailable in my country, but it's that kind of a show that can be watched in random order for the most part, so I'm not despairing too much). It's basically about two families trying to live together despite all sorts of misunderstandings, so the vocabulary is rather basic, thankfully, and it revolves around day-to-day, simple matters. I might get bored with that quickly, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

Also I'm thinking about attending the Polyglot Gathering! I've never been to one before, but this time it's going to be in my country so it would be a shame to miss such an opportunity.

[Nogon]

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Another curious thing is that sometimes, to realize that my own language can be also silly, I need to look at it from a distance. So when I saw "ζιγκ ζαγκ" it really weirded me out – what's up with that word?! – only to realize that in Polish we have the same thing. It's such an unusual word, I'll have to check where it came from. I've heard it lots of times before, but I've never wondered about it.

Zigzag? English and French have it too!

Just the other day I heard the infinitive verb "zigzagare" in my Italian audiobook and I did a double take. At first I was wondering if it was an Italianized English word. I didn't realize that word was also in Polish (I found zygzak when I looked it up just now). Usually when I find a word that is common to both Italian and Polish it means that it originates from Greek.

I can add German "Zickzack" and Swedish "sicksack".

[lildreamsnatcher]

I can add German "Zickzack" and Swedish "sicksack".

That word is crazy, I swear XD

[lildreamsnatcher]

1) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (104/459)
+76

2) Keep making mems (187/1646)
+17

3) Listen some more (21 hours)
+2 hours, 20 minutes

I can't believe it was such a good week? But I'm looking at the numbers and it's clear I'm moving forward in the direction I want and I couldn't be happier! Fingers crossed it stays that way.

I'm still keeping up with the surprising good French course on Duolingo and I've also started the Latin course, which is very disappointing. But maybe that's becouse I'm way past the beginner stage so the course would have disappointed me no matter what... or maybe the pronunciation just really sucks (I prefer traditional pronunciation to classical, but even then, the American accent is so heavy! I know it might be rude of me to be complaining about such a thing, but it's really disturbing when you're used to Latin with a "Polish" accent). And sentences like "drunk parrots write poems" aren't impressive at all. Or even funny.

But that course made me miss a bit more the most wonderful book Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. So now I'm thinking about getting back to it, but I'm not sure if I can handle three languages going at once. Or rather, if I have time for them.

Until next week!